Many-Body Problems and Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) - Hardcover

Martin, Philippe Andre; Rothen, Francois

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ISBN 10: 3540411534 ISBN 13: 9783540411536

Verlag: Springer, 2001

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This text is a revised and augmented version of a course given to graduate and Ph.D. students in the context of the doctoral school for physics in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. This doctoral school provides a common teaching program for the universities of Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Neuchatel and Lausanne, as well as for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lau­ sanne. The scope of the course should be sufficiently general to interest both experimentalists and theoreticians wishing to engage in research in condensed matter or nuclear and particle physics. The prerequisites are an introductory course to quantum mechanics and elements of classical electromagnetism and statistical mechanics. Our main concern was how to maintain a reasonably broad level of know­ ledge for students with different orientations, in a world of research where the price of survival is extreme specialization and competitiveness. Is it still possible in the available time to provide a cultural education in physics by relatively elementary means and in an optimized form? We believe that this is an essential pedagogical duty. Attempting to meet this challenge has de­ termined the conception of this book: each individual part of it is standard and without novelty but should belong, in our opinion, to the basic culture of every physicist; only their common organization in a single house of decent siz;e might possibly be put to our credit.

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The book gives an introduction to the concepts and methods of many-body problems and quantum fields for graduate students and researchers. The formalism is developed in close conjunction with the description of a number of physical systems: cohesion and dielectric properties of the electron gas, superconductivity, superfluidity, nuclear matter and nucleon pairing, matter and radiation, interaction of fields by particle exchange and mass generation. Emphasis is put on analogies between the various systems rather than on advanced or specialized aspects, with the purpose of illustrating common ideas in different domains of physics. The exposition is self-contained and displays in a coherent way all details of derivations starting from a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and classical electromagnetism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540411534
• ISBN 13: 9783540411536
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 454
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